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Dead Rising to become straight-to-Crackle movie
Legendary Digital Media plans to produce a feature-length film based on Capcom's Dead Rising series, Variety reported. The movie will stream via Sony's Crackle channel, an app available via many game consoles and devices. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, producer of the Transformers films, will serve as Dead Rising's executive producer with Tomas Harlan of Contradiction Films, which previously created the Mortal Kombat: Legacy digital series. A director for the film has not been decided yet. Following the film's run on Crackle, it will be distributed internationally by Content Media via DVD, video on demand, subscription video on demand and TV. Capcom's zombie-slashing Dead Rising series spans three primary games in addition to a Wii remake of the first game (Chop Till You Drop), reimagining of the second (Off the Record), mobile spin-off and a few separate downloadable titles in Dead Rising 2: Case Zero and Case West. The latest was Dead Rising 3, which launched with the Xbox One in November. The game will reach PC this September. [Image: Capcom]
Filming feature-length machinima
How many of you remember the MMOvie trailer we posted back in August? Well AJ Loiacono and his marketing ploy for VOIG.com are back in the news, this time with an update on their work. Originally the MMOvie trailer was created purely as a promotion piece, with no intentions to turn it into anything more than perhaps a series of short films. That was until it drove millions of hits to the site and was translated into 10 languages so that it could be downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. Suddenly their little machinima mash-up of movie scenes translated into WoW was hugely popular, suddenly it was something worth taking a second stab at.
